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By the late seventies nuclear power had become both a major and a highly controversial element in British energy policy. The process by which this situation had been reached is naturally of considerable historical interest, especially for the light which it throws on the making and implementing of public policy, but it is also of great significance because of its implications for the future of nuclear energy in this country. The aim of this chapter is to identify the main issues in the development of British nuclear power to date,1 the better to assess what may be the main issues in the years immediately ahead.
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This chapter is based largely on my book, The Nuclear Power Decisions (Croom Helm, London; 1980). Since that book is very fully referenced, only specific points not covered by it are referenced below, that is, the events mainly of 1980-spring 1982.
Hansard 9 c 128-9 (Written Answer, 22 July, 1981); 16 c 284-90 (20 January, 1982).
HC 315 (1980–81).
HC 114 i-iv (1980–81). Debated 1 February, 1982, Hansard 17 c 21-102.
Cf. Hansard 971 c 215-9 (Written Answer, 24 July, 1979) and 15 c 171-2 (Written Answer, 16 December, 1981).
E.g., Gordon MacKerron, ‘Nuclear Power and the Economic Interests of Consumers’, mimeo, June 1982.
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Williams, R. (1983). British Nuclear Power Policies. In: Tempest, P. (eds) Energy Economics in Britain. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7355-1_3
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